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letter / symbol / character / word / CL:個|个[ge4] / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
háng row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column
dài to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
阿姨 ā maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4]
老化 lǎo huà (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
孝敬 xiào jìng to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
衰老 shuāi lǎo to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
大叔 shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
千古 qiān for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
口齿 kǒu chǐ mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc)
年满 nián mǎn to have attained the age of
享年 xiǎng nián to live to the (ripe) age of
早衰 zǎo shuāi to age prematurely / premature senescence
落叶归根 luò guī gēn lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
白头偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
半路出家 bàn - chū jiā lit. to enter monastic life at a mature age (idiom) / fig. to change one's career; to take up a new line of work or specialization; to enter a profession from a different background
反哺 fǎn to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
结发 jié (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
虚岁 suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
寿终正寝 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
新丁 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
破瓜 guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64
倚老卖老 lǎo - mài lǎo (idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
老骥伏枥 lǎo lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations


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